... peacekeeping. Feminist readings such as that of Brenner (2000) are further of use because they highlight the intersectionality of gendered processes, in which black women in particular become a doubly charged political grouping in that they represent both feminist causes and opposition to white ethnocentrism. Thus the emergence of figures such as the mother of Michael Brown and Pauline Pearce – black women who are ... an 'us and them' mentality. However, the identification of individual communities such as the Hasidic Jews of Tottenham draws attention to the ways in which many ra...

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... Third is the observation that, historically, African American women have escalated their political activity progressively, moving from a predominance of nontraditional activity to a predominance of traditional activity, and have emerged as prime users of these traditional avenues in contemporary American politics. As enslaved African females they were the victims of dual oppression, one issuing from race and the other from ... sex. Subjected to the slave status ascribed to their African male kin, they were further victimized by a body of hostile public policy directed toward them as wome...

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... force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how black people are able to exercise "white supremacist control" over one another. Hooks views the emphasis of the struggle against "white ... inferior, so that that its unequal treatment is justifiable, it logically follows that one might, as Hooks has, feel that such a definition makes white supremacy is acceptable, even...

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... inferior" for many centuries. It is no surprise then that the study of the most marginalized group to date, black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. They were essentially mute in terms of cultivating the greater portion of traditional literature regarding the topic. However, with the development of ... the 70's, we have witnessed "the flourishing of almost a cult of pluralism in matters pertaining to history and memory". These breakthroughs in academia have contributed especially to the inclusion and representation o...

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... group within the class. The question for Wilson is how can this be accomplished. He believes the answer to lie in the formation of a national multiracial coalition. The first half of the book addresses what the author perceives to be obstacles to the formation of these multiracial coalitions. He stresses the need for a new political strategy wherein the concerns of ... over the ongoing fragmentation, refragmentation, structure and substructure of the amorphous, heterogeneous American (as opposed to European) working class. A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in ...

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... growing labor unionism) and big capital (who wanted lower wages by replacing expensive white workers with cheap black labor) but how capitalisms interests would override that of race in order to increase profitability . In contrast with Capitals interest of profit making the Apartheid government's goal was that of the creation of a "white" South Africa, a racially segregated society that ... ethnic groups that inhibit South Africa (Christopher, 1994, 65).The apartheid government would further strengthen this act by making black individuals in South Africa citizens of their ethnically desi...

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